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When someone is captured, and then one of the captors goes to visit the captive. The captive says the name of this trope. But usually, if it's shown, then he hasn't come to gloat, and it's just [[Exposition]]. Sometimes he gloats anyway, though. Not limited to captures, either - it can be spoken any time when there are two longtime rivals and one of them suffers a misfortune. Sometimes the rival makes an unethical offer. For example, he may offer to buy the other partner's half of their business (the price is good, but it'll still mean they're out of business), or offer to pay the other partner's debts in exchange for getting the Love Interest, etc.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Edgeworth says it to Phoenix in the first ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' game after being arrested. Of course, Phoenix isn't there to gloat, but rather to defend Edgeworth.
* Loghain from ''[[Dragon Age]]'' invokes this trope the first time the Warden speaks to him at camp. He'll ask whether the Warden is planning on insulting him or keeping him as a trophy. You have an array of dialogue options.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]''; a quest line in the Borean Tundra requires you to speak to a naga priestess named Veejhas who is being held captive in her own temple by Kvaldir. When you do so, she hisses loudly and assumes you've come to mock her. You aren't; [[Enemy Mine| your faction opposes the Kvaldir too.]] Even so, she emphasizes that her cooperation is very temporary.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': In "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom", future Zim asks this of future Dib.
* The penultimate scene in ''[[
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